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When Harry met Spot

If marriage isn’t defined as only a union between one man and one woman, state Rep. Arthur D. Hershey believes people will want to marry animals.

Hershey, of Cochranville, who represents the 13th District, was one of about 90 legislators, including four others from Chester County, to cosponsor the Marriage Protection Act, a bill introduced Tuesday to constitutionally define marriage in Pennsylvania.

Hershey said this week that without the bill, “down the road, people will want to marry their dogs and horses to get benefits.”

Again, I have to say that what you are seeing is what happens when fear is the motivator. Fear that, without every move dictated by an endless stream of requirements and prohibitions, people will have to figure out for themselves what’s right and what’s wrong, and why. And we just can’t have that, can we? Because, after all, if some of us can figure out on our own how no navigate the courses of our lives, what does that say about those who have forever relied on some mystical authority and still can’t get it right?-Schuyler DuQuesne

I get that – not a lot, but from time to time. Perhaps a great-uncle, but not in this reality. Geneology was never one of my interests, so it will be left to others to verify. (I never throw out old documents, though.)-Schuyler DuQuesne